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Isn’t This a Long One?
January last seems impossibly distant. Memories from back then are round-edged and worn, like relics of a lost civilization. The pandemic was dawning, of course, although few of us in this country had a clue what was to come. Lockdowns, … Continue reading
Slender-Tube Skyrocket
I shouldn’t have been surprised when I discovered, in researching this post, that the common names “Skyrocket” and “Gilia” refer to more than one species of plant. The genus name (as I’ve recently learned) is Ipomopsis. You’ll often see populations … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado wildflowers, Ipomopsis aggregata, Ipomopsis tenuituba, Scarlet Gilia, Slender-Tube Skyrocket
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